Congestion measurement for regional industries in China: A data envelopment analysis approach with undesirable outputs

Energy Policy

Volumn 57, Issue , 2013, Pages 7-13

  Wu, Jie ^a   An, Qingxian ^a   Xiong, Beibei ^b   Chen, Ya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

DEA; Industry; Undesirable output

Indexed keywords

CHINESE GOVERNMENT; DEA; DESIRABLE OUTPUTS; ECOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY; NEW APPROACHES; UNDESIRABLE OUTPUT; WEST CHINA;

AUTOMATION; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

INDUSTRY;

ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM; ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INVESTMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84876307579     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.02.062     Document Type: Article

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